Pidentd

("Peter's Ident Daemon" or is it "Portable Ident Daemon"?)

LICENSE/LEGALESE

This program is released into the public domain and can be used by
anyone who wants to. Vendors may include it into their distributions
if they want to without any restrictions. (Although it would be nice
to be notified by email if someone decides to do that, and/or a note
somewhere about who wrote this program. Like in the man-page or so.. :-)

DESCRIPTION

This is a program that implements the
RFC1413
identification server. It
was very much inspired by Dan Bernstein's original 'authd' (but unlike
that program doesn't use 'netstat' to get some of the information) It
uses the kernel information directly. (And is due to that fact a lot
faster). Dan has now written another version of the 'authd' daemon that
uses his 'kstuff' to read the kernel information. Unlike that daemon,
this will use only normally available kernel access functions (and is due
to that more limited in the different machines it support). Please note
that this daemon used to be called pauthd but has changed name to better
reflect what it does (and to conform to the new RFC).

FTP SITE

CLIENT LIBRARIES

If you intend to create or modify daemons that use the
IDENT
protocol then you may wish to get the "libident" library that contains some
functions to implement the client side of this protocol. It is available
as "libident-*.tar.gz" in:

I also run a small mailing list for people who wants to act as testers
and/or developers of new alpha/beta-versions of Pidentd. If you wish
to join, please send mail to the address
pidentd-testers-request@lysator.liu.se
. (I can always use more testers, so don't hesitate :-)